of discovering that even before the landing Stopford had no faith in the scheme of
sending his men straight from the beaches into unreconnoitered hills.36 ... 64
same date; Public Records Office CAB 19/31 Sir Frederick Stopford's statement p.

Basing his choice on seniority, he sent General Sir Frederick Stopford, who at
sixty-one had never commanded troops in battle. His most recent field service
was in the Boer War. Stopford, only recently recalled from retirement, was
convinced ...

Mackenzie records an odd scene when he was lunching one day with the
generals at their mess at G.H.Q. The one next to me,' he says, 'was Sir Frederick Stopford, a man of great kindliness and personal charm, whose conversation at
lunch ...

This book, "Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson, M.A., Incumbent of Trinity . 1-2", by Frederick William Robertson, Stopford Augustus Brooke, is a replication of a book originally published before 1873. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This ...

This book, "Life and letters of Frederick W. Robertson. 2", by Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 1832-1916, is a replication of a book originally published before 1865. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technolog...

Sir Frederick Stopford lived up to his name. He was more stop than go. So delays
and hesitation cost the advantage of surprise with the Suvla landing. Of the
50,000 British and Anzac troops who landed at Suvla Bay, 2,000 were killed and
...

This book, "Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson, M.a., Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-53, Volumes 1-2", by Stopford Augustus Brooke, is a replication. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand ...

August 15, 1915 - The landing at Suvla Bay was an amphibious landing made at Suvla on the Aegean coast of Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire as part of the August Offensive, the final British attempt to break the deadlock of the Battle of Gallipoli. The landing, which commenced on the night of 6…

In his essay in The New Yorker entitled ‘Cocksure: Banks, Battles and the Psychology of Overconfidence’ Malcolm Gladwell shares and ruminates on this story:In “Military Misfortunes,” the historians Eliot Cohen and John Gooch offer, as a textbook example of this kind of failure, the British-led invasion of Gallipoli, in 1915. Gallipoli is a peninsula in southern Turkey, jutting out into the Aegean.

One of the fundamental tenets of modern British military practice has been to never, ever reinforce defeat. In other words, to not keep on flogging a dead horse. The Gallipoli campaign is a sober example of this. Noble in its intentions, once the Anglo-French fleet failed to force the Dardanelles by sea (and they might…

Visualizing Gallipoli: You Can Do It If You Have Ever Visited Marin County
After my first visit to Gallipoli in 2009, I was invited by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the old Great War Society to make a presentation about what I had discovered. I knew that my conclusions were going to surprise the members.